"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."~Anna Freud

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."~Louisa May Alcott

"I shall shape my future.
Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own.
I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me.
Or I can be lost in the maze.
My choice. My responsbility.
Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny."~Anonymous

"I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades.
I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts,
I should be hanging from a charm bracelet."

"Two rights don't make a wrong, but three will get you back on the freeway."~James Wesley Jackson

"There are two choices really.
You can either surrender to the pressures of life and the struggles of this particular battle....
or you continue the fight...and do so with even more vengence and determination to reach your goals then you did before.
I choose the fight.....I know what it will get me."~ Kim - Getting2Goal.com

"The harder you fall, the higher you bounce"

"Somtimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm, push."

"To understand beauty, one must first understand ugliness."~Benjamin Franklin

"One of the secrets of life is learning to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks." ~Jack Penn

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her:
but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide
how to play the cards in order to win the game."~Voltaire

You must act as if it is impossible to fail.~Ashanti Proverb

"The road to someday, leads to the town of nowhere.
Procrastination is the silent killer."~Anthony Robbins

"What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about."~Joseph Epstein

"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."~Michael Jordan

"Above all, challenge yourself. You may be surprised by what you can achieve."

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow."~Ronald E. Osborn

"Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore,
well described as a series of glorious defeats."~Mohandas K. Gandhi

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."~Erica Jong

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the
end of the bar."~Edward R. Murrow